Great Short Stories
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 536
Copyright date: 1950
Subjects: Short stories
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: To the readers of this book: What is a short story?; title: How a short story is written; title: How to read a short story; title: What is a good story?; title: Glossary of terms used in talking about the short story; title: Short story in America: Tell-Tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe; title: Rappaccini's daughter / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte; title: Open boat / Stephen Crane; title: All-gold canon / Jack London; title: Furnished room / O. Henry; title: Lost phoebe / Theodore Dreiser; title: Neighbor rosicky / Willa Cather; title: Sophistication / Sherwood Anderson; title: Now I lay me / Ernest Hemingway; title: By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benet; title: Leader of the people / John Steinbeck; title: Bear / William Faulkner; title: Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter; title: Summer of the beautiful white horse / William Saroyan; title: Short story in Great Britain: Secret sharer / Joseph Conrad; title: Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney / Rudyard Kipling; title: Red-headed league / A. Conan Doyle; title: Storyteller / Saki (H. H. Munro); title: Timber / John Galsworthy; title: Man who could work miracles / H. G. Wells; title: Dill pickle / Katherine Mansfield; title: Lotus-eater / W. Somerset Maugham; title: Short story in other countries: Death of the Dauphin / Alphonse Daudet; title: Inn / Guy de Maupassant; title: Beggar / Anton Chekov; title: Invisible collection / Stefan Zweig; title: Laugh in the desert / Pedro Prado